East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.
1Not all sunny garden flowers become banian-trees by the falling of the walls.
2Sraddhas are performed there under the banian called the Akshaya or inexhaustible banian.
3Arrived at the foot of that banian, he saw the remains of Rajadharman.
4On that plot stood a large and beautiful banian with a spherical top.
5Freed from the noose, the cat ran with speed and got upon the banian.
6Over a few ploughed fields, and past that large banian tree, the jungle begins.
7Gunga Govind Sing, another banian of his, and one of his own domestic servants.
8Ganassi held back the slender trunk-roots of the banian.
9There was a hut beside a tank, a huge banian near it, and nothing more.
10Breadfruit, banian, mulberry, and other barks furnished the fiber.
11My large tent was pitched beneath an immense banian-tree, close to which was the new government house.
12She took the banian, found the bloodstains on it, and spat all over them as Thara watched.
13Opposite the spacious mission grounds the worshippers were gathering beneath two gnarled banian-trees, giant-like in height and spread.
14Night came on, and the strange company lay down together under the shelter of the banian and slept.
15The rounded clumps that afford the deepest shade, are formed by the mangoe, the banian, and the cotton trees.
16Carrying the burthen with difficulty, he reached that same banian (under which he had met the crane).